The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-02-26
SOME QUEER OCCUPATIONS.
Odd Ways OF Making Living That
Some New Workers. Have Atopted.


Odd ways Of Making Living That
Some New yorkcrs Have Adopted.
New York has not attained the unique
distinction recently boasted by Paris Of
maintaining n beggar factory for maim-
ing little children, SO as to render them
objects of pity. Neither has 1t yet
reached up to London in the possession Of
necessary stores" wherein every EARTH
ly thing in use by man is kept on sale.
But, after all, New York is big enough
to supply many ingenious persons with
very curious occupations. The scheme
of our "clean towel company" newly
started for supplying business offices with
clean towels and soap, we ought not to
boast OF, since we borrowed their notion
from Chicago. We are alone, however,
in patiently permitting an audacious Teu-
ton near Chatham square to keep hand
organs in mischief by repairing them.
He assumes to replenish them with new
tunes, but, of course, that is o fiction;
for no hand organ was ever heard to play
any but bald headed and middle aged
music. New York maintains, also, at
least one establishment for fitting little
children for the stage and ballet.
Two courageous New Workers follow
the useful but unpoetic business of hang
ing their fellow citizens. They are not
preiudiced in favor of New Workers, but
are easily persuaded to hang men else
where throughout the Union. It is al
ways pretended that no one knows their
names and that only the sheriff Of this
county has their addresses. One is q
Hebrew, dubbed "Isaacs," and the other
is German, called an ,nzesheimer;"
but the city always lunps them both
under the one name Of Joseph B. Atliin-
son, and under that name they draw
their pay. They rig the gallows and
citizen, in Twenty third street, swings q
shingle declaring him to be 1.-THE De-
stroyer Of Moths"
Four prosperous citizens earn their
livelihood as doctors for the lap dogs of
rich women. As q rule. the only mcdi-
cine they use is starvation. They fling
the dear pets into barred boxes and de-
prive them Of food for four days, having
found out that the usual trouble with pet
dogs is that they arc fed eXtravagantly
and improperly. Just east of the Bowery,
in n tenement house. resides man whose
business it is to rent himself and his
Punch and Judy show to children's par
ties in the brownstone wards. A person
on the Bowery Keeps six or eight girls
busy framing wroaths and pictures Of
tombstones, whereon are set forth the
virtues of deceased New Workers. He
follows where the death notices in the
papers lead him. and works upon the
fanIinfyo Of tt,n iaf ctr,rl-,p fot,,i1inc
a rich Italian employs horde of his
country!nen to trim or balance the loads
upon the scows of our street sweeping
department.. These trimmers save for
him all the rags, fat, bone, metal and
other convertible refuse flung into the
holseholder;;' ash barrels. Another man
is soaking fortune by carrying off all
the waste and refuse the city will not re-
move, such as builders leavings, dirt
from cellar diggings and SO on. The
builders pay him to take it. and then he
sells it in the suburbs for filing in sunken
lan;!s.
Only ono man in town pretends 70 keep
photographs of ail tho notable persons in
The world. There is not room for two in
the business. Another citizen sells to
public rien and corporations clippings
from all tho newspapers that mention
them at five cents clipping, added to u
subscription fec each year. Yet another
citizen hunts up coats of arms and ped
igrecs for all those who think theirs have
been overlooked, or that they may get
then from families of the same. or nearly
the samr, names as their own. This is
quite English and therefore popular. 1t is
said that the carriage makers are giving
away coats of arms like chromos. Law
yer Ed. Price, the ex-pugilist, has O.
monopoly as the attorney for the Chinese
The laundrymen all seek him when in
trouble, and always pay him in silver dol
lars. The trade in painting black eyes
with a mixture'of six parts white paint
and one part red now boasts several es-
tAblishments. 1t is not popularizing the
black eye, because it only covers up the
scandal without removing the recollection
Of the accompanying clicking"
One New Yorker has posted himself
Gbout all the unclaimed estates in christen-
dom and thus profits by weakness more
generous than most folks imagine. An
other New Yorker searches the streets at
night with lantern for coins and purses
dropped during the evening. A woman,
near the city hall, takes care of the
babies whose widowed mothers nave gone
out to work, and who check them, like
umbrellas, in the morning and call for
them in the evening. Many women in
the east side tenements take care of a
baby or two for their neighbors, but this
downtown one is think, the only regu-
lar baby safe deposit company or storage
warehouse in town. There is no matri-
monial agency or husbands exchange
newspaper here just now. There have
been many but all have failed. That
scheme is not so profitable as that of a
man met the other day who told me he
trained valuable dogs to come straight
back to him as often as he sold them.-
Julian Ralph in Mail and Express.
Poverty and Waste.